THE “TALKIES”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 678, 1 June 1929, Page 8 (Supplement)

THE “TALKIES”

Opinions of Actresses

Several London actresses recently gave tlieir opinion of the “talkies.” Here are two of the most interesting: Sybil Thorndike said:

The main difficulty with talking films is going to be that cinema audiences will become almost as critical as theatre audiences.

In the past people who have gone to the pictures have mental 1 y supplied their own dialogue to fit the scenes presented: and, as one’s own dialogue always seems good, one is going to be very critical of what one hears.

X think that in talking films the scenes will have to be taken consecutively, in the form of a finished play. Further, they will have to be exceedingly well rehearsed. On the stage a play is never perfect until it has been running a week or more, for the players have to become familiar with the characters they represent.

Madeleine Carroll, one of London’s newest stage and film stars, who played the lead in “The G-uns of Loos,” thinks that talking films have far to go before they reach a state of perfection.

“I do not think they will ever oust silent pictures from their present popularity,” she said. "After all, one goes to a cinema to be entertained in silence.”